A Curious Class of Adpositional Multiword Expressions in Korean
This work addresses a gap in linguistic resources for Korean multiword expressions, which is incremental as it builds on existing frameworks like PARSEME.
The paper tackled the underrepresentation of Korean multiword adpositions in cross-lingual frameworks by studying postpositional verb-based constructions (PVCs) using Korean Wikipedia data, and proposed annotation guidelines to support future work and alignment with multilingual efforts.
Multiword expressions (MWEs) have been widely studied in cross-lingual annotation frameworks such as PARSEME. However, Korean MWEs remain underrepresented in these efforts. In particular, Korean multiword adpositions lack systematic analysis, annotated resources, and integration into existing multilingual frameworks. In this paper, we study a class of Korean functional multiword expressions: postpositional verb-based constructions (PVCs). Using data from Korean Wikipedia, we survey and analyze several PVC expressions and contrast them with non-MWEs and light verb constructions (LVCs) with similar structure. Building on this analysis, we propose annotation guidelines designed to support future work in Korean multiword adpositions and facilitate alignment with cross-lingual frameworks.